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NDH
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Posts: 41
Joined: Mar 03, 2003
Last Visit: Jun 23, 2004
Location: Sanford MI
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:14 am
Running Windows XP.
I am having no troubles, I am happy to say I actually was able to take and use this to also kick through items as I would with andale, in the form I punched up a sieve to run through the Miniatures Then I just highlited and added the words I wanted to the Keyword List and the Trash word list and when I was done I had gone through all of the Leads and had all of the AD&D and D&D fantasy type leads listed for me in about 10 minutes.
That is the only real critical one I have shot at. When I first started out i had about 2400 results. when done I had it down to about 146.
As I emailed you though Nev those are the features I could use. Otherwise this thing does work Wonderfully.
Psst the one thing I am struggling with is after I run a seive I create how on earth can you delete these from the list?
I have about 5 listed and I can not get any to delete and go away. I would like to be able to delete some of these so I do not have to rename or remember which ones do what for me.
If I can not I will have a list of Sieves that take three Hours to scroll through in a matter of a month.
Bruce Thibodeau
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nev
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Last Visit: Aug 27, 2022
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:26 am
You can delete a sieve although it's in no way easily apparent how to do so (something I should change).
Go into the 'Select sieve' dialog, click on the sieve you want to delete and hit the delete key on your keyboard!
Time to start a
FAQ
on the website...
Nev
NDH
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Location: Sanford MI
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 4:51 pm
Thanks Nev Never Thought of that.
Bruce Thibodeau
(NorthernDuckHunter)
Outdoor Photographer/Writer
beasterbrook
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Last Visit: Mar 18, 2023
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:56 am
by the looks of it auctionseive only does ebay US? are you able to choose the country at all? this would be a great benefit to me if you could choose (amonst the 10 odd countries) that you wich to look at...
Brette:)
nev
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:04 am
There's a backdoor....
Before clicking on 'Choose...', type the country code, for example 'au'
into the categoryid field. Then when you click on 'choose' it will get
the category list from that country.
It's not reliable (doesn't handle things like uk because they're not .com.uk)
but I plan to develop the feature.
Nev
beasterbrook
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:18 am
thanks;)
just adding a drop down menu or somthing when you first choose the catagories may help? that way you can have what ever the sites web address are... oh well, us poor overseas people...
nev
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:35 am
Yep - I'll be adding a dropdown to the category chooser dialog.
Of course, it's not just a matter of adding the dropdown - there's a bunch of other stuff going on in the background that needs to be taken care of to make it rock solid.
enkidu
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Posts: 29
Joined: Dec 10, 2002
Last Visit: Apr 15, 2021
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 1:52 pm
I've been using my own home-grown software I hacked-up in about 2 hours.
It's simple, but effective: I only show new results of my searches. I run it once a
day, and I get e-mailed a report (so I don't have to worry about gui programming,)
containing links to the new items in my searches. My searches are either titles
and or contents, which are easy to specify using the e-bay form of:
"this+that+-notthis". Parsing the output is pretty easy - although ebay did change
things a bit recently. I used about 120 lines of Java, which was mostly string
handling (searching ebay replies for results.) Plus a script which runs it, saves the
results and e-mails me the new changes.
This style is good for me, where I only get a few new hits in my 100+ search list each
day. It doesn't work well when many things change. For those, I still use bookmarked
searches.
I never search by category. It's too time consuming to specify and perform.
AuctionSieve would be much better for me for searches by category, or for searches
with many results. If it could filter out only new items, then I might switch to it.
nev
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:03 pm
Thanks for the feedback Enkidu.
Working on the search stuff...
BTW
In Tools-Options, you can turn on 'Ignore auctions already seen'.
Then when you get auctions, auctions that you've previously retrieved get filtered out.
I uhmed and ahed about whether to make this the default - it confused some of my testers when they hit 'get auctions' and no results were returned (becasue they'd already done it once before just a minute ago).
BTW
Did anyone bother to read the tips of the day? - I know I ignore them for lots of software I use.
nev
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 3:31 pm
Offtopic...
My work on AuctionSieve is going to be delayed a couple of days.
I was procrastinating and got round to doing another site I'd been meaning to do for a while showing how I fixed my stuffed hard drive -
My dead hard drive story
And it's been posted on slashdot so I've suddenly got 10's of thousands of hits and lots of emails.
nev
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:04 pm
Finally released 1.2.0
eBay auction search software tool | AuctionSieve
Biggest thing it adds is regular eBay searches.
You can specify
- search terms in the normal way
- specify to search in description as well as title
- exclusion words
- specify categories to restrict search to - this was something Foul asked for - eg you can specify to search all the Games categories
except
D&D to find those miscategorised bargains!
Oh and all those View link problems have been solved for those of you running Win ME & 98.
Nev
foster1969
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Last Visit: Jun 24, 2014
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:46 pm
Thanks Nev!
I'm sure I speak for most of us here when I say, "Two thumbs up!"
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beasterbrook
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:09 am
Nev, congrats on the little one...
now when i click on an item in Auction Seive it opens up another page but the page never loads properly, just come up with a "The page cannot be displayed"...
nev
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:56 am
Thanks Brette!
Have you got any firewall or ad blocking software?
What's the url in your browser?
Nev
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